Word: rumpledness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Each morning around 9:30, Roy Allison Roberts, his teeth clenching one of the dozen Corona-Coronas he smokes daily in defiance of his age (72) and his doctor (who allows him six), climbs out of his car before one of the homeliest buildings in Kansas City, Mo. The building...
The prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging...
Late that afternoon Khrushchev & Co. flew back into Washington worn and rumpled. Under Secretary of State Robert Murphy led the proper but perfunctory greeting party. Crowds waved amiably-this time at a familiar figure-as K.'s limousine swept him back to Blair House. Within an hour he was...
To its list of "Unbest" Dressed Men, London's Man About Town magazine predictably named two iridescent outlanders -Elvis Presley and Liberace-and not too surprisingly added a member of Britain's Establishment, chronically rumpled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But one nominee was as shocking as plaid socks...
Harry Jay Mosser is a short, rumpled, publicity-shy Texan who has quietly piled up a fortune of $100 million by sniffing out oil on land that no one else wanted. This week he was preparing to pile up another fortune, based this time on his nose for natural gas...